" An overview of the multidisciplinary field of data mining, this book focuses specifically on
new methodologies and case studies. Included are case studies written by 44 leading …

Application of data mining techniques to the World Wide Web, referred to as Web mining,
has been the focus of several recent research projects and papers. However, there is no …

Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place
names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of …

With the tremendous amount of information that becomes available on the Web on a daily
basis, the ability to quickly develop information agents has become a crucial problem. A vital …

The widespread use of the Web has originated several new data management problems,
such as extracting data from Web pages and making databases accessible from Web …

With the tremendous amount of information that becomes available on the Web on a daily
basis, the ability to quickly develop information agents has become a crucial problem. A vital …

The integration of distributed, heterogeneous databases, such as those available on the
World Wide Web, poses many problems. Herer we consider the problem of integrating data …

The vast amounts of information readily available on the World Wide Web can be effectively
used for question answering in two fundamentally different ways. In the federated approach …

In this paper we discuss themanagement of semi-structured data, ie, data that has irregular
or dynamically changing structure. We describe components of the Stanford TSIMMIS …

Abstract Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the
lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge difficult. A solution is to turn the …